Cheater's Jam

Since we're into gelatin this week -- and oh yes there are so many more recipes of Grandma's relating to pudding & jello that I could probably do a whole month. But don't worry I'll switch it up soon. (between gelatin & chicken salads, she had the market cornered).

Anyway, I digress.

Cheater's Jam

Here are the rules:
4 cups of fruit
2 cups sugar
1 3 oz pack of gelatin

Mix sugar & gelatin together. If fruit is frozen or from fridge, heat fruit in pan on low for 3 minutes. Add sugar & gelatin mixture to saucepan, heat 4 minutes longer until fruit breaks down just a little bit and mixture gets thicker. Place in containers in fridge or freezer (careful on picking your container - you don't want the jam to melt a plastic container).

My notes:
I used 2 cups blueberries, 1 cup blackberries, 1 cup cranberries. My blueberries and blackberries were frozen, my cranberries were not. I think if I were to do cranberries again I'd put them in the processor really quick before adding. I used 1 cup sugar, 1 cup splenda cooking sugar -- careful some splendas don't measure like sugar - note if I hadn't have used cranberries, I probably could have reduced the sugar. I used strawberry gelatin because I wanted the flavor as a backdrop to my other berries. The end result is quite tasty.